The Chinese Version Of Wallace Self-Concept Scale: Its Psychometrics And Application

The Wallace Self-Concept Scale (WSCS), which was developed by Canadian psychologist Wallace G. R. in 1980, is a very simple and useful instrument to evaluate a person's self-concept. The WSCS is 15-item bipolar adjective scale that measures an individual's perception of "Myself AS A Person," It is a global measure of the self. One of the purposes of present study was to translate it into Chinese and to evaluate the psychometrics of its Chinese version (Study 1). With the WSCS, we also had explored the relationship between self-concept with coping styles and academic achievements of senior middle school students (Study 2 and Study 3).The results showed that the Chinese version of WSCS has good reliability and good validity and it can be used in later research and practical work (Study 1). No significant sex difference and grade difference was found in present study (Study 1 and Study 2). The results also showed that self-concept of the senior middle students were positively related with Problem-solving, Withdrawal and Help-seeking of the CSSMSS but not with other subscales of CSSMSS (Study 2). The correlations between the self-concept of the senior middle students with their academic achievements were not significant (Study 3).